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Same: so many people signed up because they heard IT payed well and has many offers. Half the class dropped after the first year when they realize it's not for them.
I did a CS major at a state school and we started with ~400 students. It ended with like 35.
Honestly, a CS major has almost zero practical relevance to most tech jobs anyway beyond filtering out resumes. I can count on one hand the amount of times I used a skill I learned in my classes in my work as a jack-of-all trades dev/sysadmin.
If you wanna work in tech, any college degree works. What's more important is a portfolio that shows you know what you're doing.
Fellow sysadmin here, how would you create a portfolio? Just list various projects you've worked on?
Yeah pretty much. I have a personal website that I set up with a pipeline to automatically build and deploy. Creating it taught me a lot of things and it was definitely a focus when I had interviews. Homelabs are great too, shows you have some self driven interest in the subject, especially if you don't have a bunch of work experience to advertise.
Ah, cool then I'm already kinda on that track. My "portfolio" just tends to be a section of my resume that lists technology I've worked on and improvements/automations that I've put in place. Helped me get my current gig.